Revolut Card:

horsebox wrote: I've had this card over a year now and nothing but hassle. It has only worked sporadically, don't ever recall it working abroad. Went to Tesco and got shopping and paid by this card and payment wasn't accepted so then paid with my CC. Got home and get a payment accepted notification. I also notice card payment issues notification in my application too. This appears to be going on weeks now. "There is a problem with the MasterCard network which is causing some card payments to fail. This issue is affecting a large number of international banks. We'll update you as soon as we know more." "Good news. The problem with our payment processor has been fixed and everything should be working again. If you have a pending payment, please note that this should only take about an hour or so, but it can take as long as 72 hours in some instances." The Facebook comments is a bottomless pit of customers complaining, with one person in particular having to prove where her wages came from to get access her own money. It's one outage after another. https://blog.revolut.com/enough-with-the-excuses-heres-how-were-going-to-stop-these-outages/

I use it every in work to buy a coffee and in the canteen and it works 100%

It doesn't work in the vending machines for me or my mate who also has a card too.

It works about 80% of the time in Starbucks that I buy coffee and the odd lunch.

It didn't work for purchases that I tried to make in China and I'm sure it didn't work for other online purchases on other occasions too.

The payment now in Tesco has just been declined\reverted, just after I spoke to support.

It's far too unreliable.

I had it blocked before as the location of where I was buying didn't match where their security cert was registered to, was a pain as was abroad and hadn't much other options to pay. I managed to turn of location based security in the app which fixed it.

Saved me a bundle the last couple of days in England. 

I use it at home when buying stuff online in Sterling or $$. Booked a Ryanair flight a couple of months back from Stansted so the price was in Stg. Rynaair converted the price to € using their own rate, but I selected the much less noticeable option to pay in sterling and let my bank do the conversion. Used the Revolut card then and saved a nice few quid. Would also use it for the likes of boozing, eating out and stuff that some banks deem as red flag puchases when it comes to reviewing loans/mortgage applications.

nvidic wrote: Don't take that too far Sham, I got the mortgage a few months back and they were saying if we had none of that on our statements we'd be denied, they need to see you can live a normal life and afford the repayments. Gambling and payments after 10pm or so about the only thing we were told they didn't like.

ah I know yeah, more when im on a bender which is known to happen from time to time...

The analytics are great on it but scary looking at how much money you go through in a few months!

Woke up this morning in Cardiff and realised I had no wallet. Checked my phone and saw the notification to say I was in McDonalds in the early hours of the morning  Down I went and some nice person had ended in my wallet.

ShamtheRam wrote: Woke up this morning in Cardiff and realised I had no wallet. Checked my phone and saw the notification to say I was in McDonalds in the early hours of the morning  Down I went and some nice person had ended in my wallet. All made possible by Revolut